football club
Malmö Fotbollförening, normally known as Malmö FF, Malmö, or MFF, is a professional football club and the most successful football baseball club in Sweden in terms of trophies won. [ 2 ] Formed in 1910 and affiliated with the Scania Football Association, Malmö FF are based at Eleda Stadion in Malmö, Scania. [ 3 ] The club have won a criminal record 22 swedish backing titles and the most national cup titles with 14. [ 4 ] [ A ]
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Malmö FF won their first championship in 1944. [ 5 ] The power station of swedish football in late years, Malmö FF besides saw glory in the 1970s, winning five swedish championships and four Svenska Cupen titles. Malmö FF remains the alone club from the Nordic countries to have reached the final of the european Cup, the harbinger of the UEFA Champions League. Malmö FF were runner-up in the 1979 european Champions Cup final, which they lost 1–0 to English club Nottingham Forest. [ 6 ] For this feat, Malmö FF were awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal. [ 7 ] [ 6 ] Malmö FF is besides the entirely Nordic baseball club to have been represented at the Intercontinental Cup ( succeeded by FIFA Club World Cup ) in which they competed for the 1979 claim. [ 8 ] Malmö FF is the leader of the overall Allsvenskan table maratontabellen, [ 9 ] where they are the club that holds both the commemorate of scoring the most goals equally well as the phonograph record of winning the most matches. In late years the team qualified for tree back-to-back group stages of the Champions League in 2014, 2015 and 2021. In 2019 and 2020, Malmö FF played in the knockout stages of the UEFA Europa League. The club color, reflected in their crest and kit, are sky amobarbital sodium and white, with flip blue shirts, white shorts and sky blue sky socks being the clubhouse ‘s traditional kit out tinge. The main rivals of the club are boyfriend regional rivals Helsingborg, historical domestic equal IFK Göteborg and historically local Division 2 Södra Götaland english IFK Malmö. [ 10 ] The MFF Support are their official fan club. [ 11 ] The club name is literally translated into English as the “ Malmö Football Association ” .
history [edit ]
early years [edit ]
Malmö IP, the first home stadium for the golf club between 1910 and 1957 The club arose from a municipal inaugural in 1905 to encourage new people in Malmö to play mastermind football. One of the youth teams, the Bollklubben Idrott, besides known just as BK Idrott, was a harbinger to the Malmö FF. BK Idrott joined the newly created football department of the IFK Malmö in 1909, but soon left because of issues between the two clubs. On 24 February 1910 the 19 members of the BK Idrott founded the Malmö FF ; the beginning chair was Werner Mårtensson. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The club spent its first ten years in local and regional divisions as there was no official national league contest, playing the majority of their matches in the city division called the Malmömästerskapen. They besides competed in regional competitions in Scania, and played matches against danish clubs. In 1916 the Malmö FF reached the final examination of the Scanian regional competition ( Distriktsmästerskapen ) for the first time, playing against equal the Helsingborgs IF but losing 3–4. [ 14 ] The golf club defeated local equal the IFK Malmö three times during the season, and therefore earned the unofficial but much desired title of Malmö ‘s best football clubhouse. [ 15 ] In 1917 the Malmö FF competed in the Svenska Mästerskapet for the inaugural time, a cup tournament for the deed of swedish champions, but lost their first match in the second qualify round 4–1 against the IFK Malmö. The club continued to play in the cup until 1922, reaching the quarter-finals in 1920 when they were knocked out by the Landskrona BoIS. The cup was finally discontinued and the title of swedish champions was given to the winners of the Allsvenskan which was first created for the 1924–25 temper. [ 16 ] [ A ] In 1920 the Swedish Football Association invited Swedish football clubs to compete in official national competitions. Malmö FF earned a position in the Division 2 Sydsvenska Serien. They won this division in the first season, and were promoted to the Svenska Serien Västra, the highest tied of rival in Sweden at the prison term. however, they were relegated after a unmarried season, and found themselves back in the Sydsvenska Serien for closely a decade until they again achieved forwarding to the Allsvenskan, in 1931. [ 17 ]
First years in the Allsvenskan and early on achievements [edit ]
The Malmö FF team of 1943–44 The cabaret achieved mid-table league positions for two seasons, but was relegated in 1934 as a penalty for breaking amateur regulations. The clubhouse had paid their players a small summarize of money for each game. Although against the rules, this was coarse at the fourth dimension ; Malmö FF was the only club to show it in the accounting records. In accession to relegation to Division 2, the clubhouse suffered bans for the entire board of directors and twenty-six players. The version of events told by Malmö FF and local press suggests that local rival, IFK Malmö, had reported the violation to the Swedish Football Association. This belief has contributed to the longstanding competitive tensions between the clubs. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] [ 20 ] The club made their room bet on to the Allsvenskan in 1937 after two seasons in the Division 2. In the same year Eric Persson was elected as president after being secretary since 1929, and held the place until 1974. Persson is regarded by club leaders and fans as the most authoritative person in the golf club ‘s history, as he turned the clubhouse professional in the 1970s. Under his leadership the club went from being titleless in 1937 to holding ten-spot swedish championships by the end of the 1974 season. [ 21 ] In 1939 the club reached its highest put however, third gear locate in the Allsvenskan, nine points behind champions the IF Elfsborg. Malmö FF ‘s first swedish championship came in 1944, when the club won the penult bet on of the season against AIK before 36,000 spectators at the Råsunda. The end game of the season was gain 7–0 against Halmstad BK. [ 22 ] The be nine seasons, Malmö FF finished in the top three in the league. The cabaret won the swedish Championship in 1949, 1950, 1951 and 1953, and were runners-up in 1946, 1948 and 1952. The club besides won the Svenska Cupen in 1944, 1946, 1947, 1951 and 1953, and finished as runner-up in 1945. Between 6 May 1949 and 1 June 1951, the team were unbeaten in 49 matches, of which 23 were an unbroken streak of victories. [ 23 ]
young players in the 1960s The club finished as runner-up in the Allsvenskan twice more, in 1956 and 1957. The follow year the club left the Malmö IP for the Malmö Stadion, which had been built for the 1958 FIFA World Cup, and was to host the golf club for 50 years. In 1964 Malmö FF contracted spanish coach Antonio Durán ; this was the first of a series of changes that led to the most successful era in the club ‘s history. Young talents such as Lars Granström and Bo Larsson emerged during the early 1960s and would prove to be crucial ingredients in the achiever that would come in the 1970s. The club finished irregular in 1964 but went on to win their sixth swedish championship in 1965, when Bo Larsson scored 28 goals to finish as the league ‘s top goal scorer. The Malmö FF once again won the Allsvenskan in 1967, after a less successful class in 1966. The cabaret ‘s young players, a well as talents bought in from neighbouring clubs in Scania in 1967, became a team that systematically finished in the top three in the Allsvenskan. [ 24 ]
successful 1970s, european Cup 1979, 1980s and 1990s [edit ]
After finishing as runner-up in Allsvenskan for the final two years of the 1960s, Malmö FF started the most successful ten of their history with a swedish championship in 1970. The golf club won Allsvenskan in 1970, 1971, 1974, 1975 and 1977 ampere well as Svenska Cupen in 1976 and 1978. The 1977 Allsvenskan victory qualified the club for the 1978–79 european Cup, and after victories against AS Monaco, Dynamo Kyiv, Wisła Kraków and Austria Wien, Malmö FF reached the final of the rival, which was played at the Olympiastadion in Munich against Nottingham Forest. Trevor Francis, who scored the only finish of the pit, won it 1–0 for Nottingham Forest. Nevertheless, the 1979 european Cup political campaign is the biggest success in the history of Malmö FF. [ 25 ] The team were given the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal the lapp class, awarded for the most significant swedish sporting accomplishment of the class, for their accomplishment in the european Cup. [ 7 ]
Malmö Stadion, the home stadium for the club between 1958 and 2008 much of the success during the 1970s was due to new tactics and training methods brought to the club by Englishman Bob Houghton, who managed the club between 1974 and 1980. Eric Persson was succeeded as chair in 1974 by Hans Cavalli-Björkman. After the team performed respectably under managers Keith Blunt and Tord Grip in the early on 1980s, Roy Hodgson took over in 1985. Roy Hodgson led Malmö FF to two swedish Championships in 1986 and 1988, and the cabaret won Allsvenskan five years in a row between 1985 and 1989. At the clock, the championship was decided by play-offs between the best teams after the conclusion of the regular season ; this musical arrangement was in plaza from 1982 until 1992. The club reached the play-off final four times between 1986 and 1989 but alone managed to win the final doubly. apart from Allsvenskan and Swedish Championships, Malmö FF won Svenska Cupen in 1984, 1986 and 1989. [ 26 ] early than finishing as runner-up in Allsvenskan in 1996, the team did not excel in the 1990s, as the club failed to win Allsvenskan and Svenska Cupen throughout the entire ten. The 1990s ended with delegating from Allsvenskan in 1999. Hans Cavalli-Björkman was succeeded as president by Bengt Madsen in 1999, and former player Hasse Borg was contracted as Director of Sport. These operational changes, equally well as the emergence of young talent Zlatan Ibrahimović, led to the render to Allsvenskan in 2001. Ibrahimović rose to fame and became an important player in Malmö FF ‘s political campaign to return to the top league. He was late sold to Ajax in 2001, before playing for several european clubs in Italy ‘s Serie A, FC Barcelona in Spain ‘s La Liga, Paris Saint-Germain in France ‘s Ligue 1, Manchester United F.C. in England ‘s Premier League, LA Galaxy in the MLS, and AC Milan again where he presently plays. [ 27 ]
Start of the 2000s to the present [edit ]
Opening game at Stadion The return to Allsvenskan was the start of the successful early 2000s, under the management of Tom Prahl, when the cabaret finished in the top three times in a rowing. In 2004, it won Allsvenskan, the club ‘s fifteenth swedish Championship. In 2005, the club reached the last modification beat for the UEFA Champions League but were defeated by FC Thun. Successful sponsor work and player sales besides made Malmö FF the richest clubhouse in Sweden, a place calm held since 2013. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] This position was further cemented by the consecutive Champions League group phase appearances the two following years. [ 30 ] Malmö FF moved from Malmö Stadion to Eleda Stadion in 2009, a stadium built wholly for football and located future to the honest-to-god one. [ 31 ] In 2009, Madsen announced that he would step down as president, and was replaced by Håkan Jeppsson early the follow class. [ 32 ] In 2010, the club marked their hundredth anniversary with many celebratory events at the beginning of the season. On the sidereal day of the club ‘s hundredth anniversary in 2010, the Swedish football magazine Offside declared Malmö FF to be the greatest football club in swedish history. [ 33 ] The season became a great success as the clubhouse won Allsvenskan for the nineteenth meter and became swedish champions for the sixteenth meter. [ 34 ] Unlike in 2004, these successes were achieved without any major transfers before the season, and with a police squad consisting largely of younger players. [ 35 ] In October 2013, Malmö FF won their seventeenth swedish championship and 20th Allsvenskan deed in the penult orotund of the league away from home plate. alike to 2010, the title was the solution of a young police squad. The average long time of the police squad, 23.8 years, was the youngest team to become champions since the begin of the twenty-first century. [ 36 ] The keep up year Malmö FF qualified for the group stagecoach of the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League by beating Ventspils, Sparta Prague and Red Bull Salzburg in the qualify rounds. [ 37 ] This was the first base time the club qualified for the contest proper since the re-branding from the european Cup in the 1992–93 season and the first time since the 2000–01 season that a swedish club qualified. In the stick to months Malmö FF defended their league title, winning their eighteenth swedish backing and 21st Allsvenskan title. [ 38 ] This was the first clock a club defended the Allsvenskan deed since the 2003 season. The 2015 season saw Malmö FF failing to retaining the championship and missing out on the top-four for the first time since 2009. however, the club managed to qualify once again to the group stages of the UEFA Champions League in the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League version, beating Žalgiris Vilnius, Red Bull Salzburg and Celtic FC in qualifiers. In October 2016, Malmö FF won their nineteenth swedish championship and 22nd Allsvenskan championship. [ 39 ] The championship was Malmö FF ‘s third gear in the straddle of four years. This resulted in the club surpassing IFK Göteborg in terms of swedish championship titles, indisputably becoming the most successful swedish football clubhouse of all time. Malmö FF is a dominant allele pull in Sweden. As of the end of the 2021 Allsvenskan season, the club are the leaders of the overall Allsvenskan postpone maratontabellen. [ 9 ] Malmö FF are besides the record holders for the full number of swedish championships, Allsvenskan titles and Svenska Cupen titles. [ 5 ] [ 40 ]
Colours and crest [edit ]
Because of the cabaret colors, sky blue and white, the baseball club is much known by the nicknames Di blåe ( Scanian : The Blues ) and Himmelsblått ( The Sky Blues ). The home kit is azure shirts, ashen shorts, and azure socks. The away strip is black. diverse alternative kits have been used for european play such as an all-white kit introduced in the 1950s, and re-used for the 2011 and 2012 seasons, and all-black kits with azure and golden trimmings were used for the european campaigns in 2005 and 2013. [ 41 ]
Kit evolution [edit ]
        Home kit out for the 1910 season |
 Home kit between 1910 and 1920 |
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The clubhouse colours have not constantly been sky blue. The predecessor club BK Idrott wore blue sky and white striped shirts and white shorts, and this kit out was still used for the first six months of 1910 after Malmö FF was founded. This was by and by changed to crimson and blank striped shirts and black shorts to show that Malmö FF was a new, independent club. This color combination has on occasion been used in modern times as the aside kit. The show azure kit was introduced in 1920. [ 42 ] Since 2010 a belittled Scanian sag is featured on the back of the shirt just below the neck. [ 43 ]
Crest evolution [edit ]
1910
1920
1920s
The peak of Malmö FF consists of a shield with two vertical azure fields on the sides, and one vertical white field in the middle. Underneath the carapace is “ Malmö FF ” spelled out in azure letters with a azure star under the text. In the top area of the shield is a white horizontal airfield over the three vertical fields. The abbreviation of the clubhouse name “ MFF ” is spelled out with azure letters in this field. On top of the shield are five tower-like extensions of the white field. The present shield crest made its introduction on the shirt in the 1940s. [ 44 ] There were early crests before this but they were never featured on the shirt. While the first crest was black and white, the second crest was red and white in accord with the club ‘s independent colours between 1910 and 1920. [ 41 ] In the original harbor logo the fully club mention and azure star beneath the shield were not featured, they were late added when golf club president Eric Persson discovered while overseas that people had trouble identifying what city the club came from good by looking at the baseball club cap. For the hundredth anniversary of the club in 2010, the years 1910 and 2010 were featured on each side of the carapace on a azure decoration behind the shield. [ 43 ]
Stars above the crown [edit ]
Malmö FF is the only club in Sweden to have the honor of wearing two stars above its crest, representing 20-29 domestic championship titles. The stars are merely featured on catch shirts and are not a part of the official crest .
Malmö ‘s kit is manufactured by Puma, who besides sponsor the club. consequently, diverse Puma products are sold in the baseball club ‘s memento workshop at Eleda Stadion. [ 45 ] The first gear presenter to appear on Malmö FF ‘s new jersey was local shipyard caller Kockums in 1976, and since 1981 at least one sponsor logo has appeared on the clubhouse ‘s kits. In the mid-1990s it became commonplace for swedish clubs to have several shirt sponsors. Malmö FF was no exception, and this was the case until 2010 when the golf club returned to having merely one sponsor logo on their kit .
Supporters [edit ]
Fans of Malmö FF are called MFF:are ( the son is the like in singular and plural ). Malmö FF has several sports fan clubs, of which the largest is the official fan club MFF Support, founded in 1992. MFF Support describes itself as “ a non-profit and non-political organization working against ferocity and racism ”. [ 11 ] The president of MFF Support is Thelma Ernst. [ 49 ] There are besides several smaller independent supporter groups. The most big of these is Supras Malmö, which was founded in 2003 by a coalescence of smaller ultras groups and devoted fans. [ 50 ] The name “ Supras ” is derived from the words supporters and ultras – the latter indicate that the group is inspired by a sports fan culture with roots in southern Europe. Supras Malmö is the most visible group in the main assistant stand at Eleda Stadion, marking its presence with banners, flags and choreography. Another group with alike goals is Rex Scania. MFF Tifosi 96 ( MT96 ) is a network of supporters creating tifos for particular occasions and crucial games. [ 51 ] Malmösystrar ( Sisters of Malmö ) is the largest female supporter faction in Europe with over 200 members. [ 52 ] The Malmö FF supporters are ill-famed for their ability to create a lively air and besides hold the record of the highest sound level measured in Allsvenskan with 127 decibel in a game in 2016 versus IFK Göteborg .
Rivalries [edit ]
Because of geographic proximity, minor rivalries exist with Trelleborgs FF and Landskrona BoIS, which are both besides located in Scania. [ 10 ] The independent rivals of the club are Helsingborgs IF, IFK Göteborg and IFK Malmö. The competition between Malmö FF and Helsingborgs IF has existed since Malmö FF were promoted up to Allsvenskan in the 1930s, and is primarily geographic, since both teams are from Scania in southern Sweden. The competition with IFK Göteborg relates more to title clashes ; the two are the most successful clubs in swedish football history and the merely two to have appeared in european cup finals, IFK Göteborg in the UEFA Cup in 1982 and 1987 and Malmö FF in the european Cup in 1979. [ 10 ] The competition with IFK Malmö is both geographic and diachronic. The two clubs come from the lapp city and used to play at the same stadium in the early twentieth century. The speculate actions of board members of IFK Malmö in 1933, revealing Malmö FF ‘s breaches of amateur football rules to the Swedish Football Association, far lend to the competitive tensions between the two clubs. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] [ 20 ] IFK Malmö have not played in Allsvenskan since 1962 ; frankincense matches between the two sides are rare. [ 53 ]
average attendances [edit ]
- As of 16 December 2019[54]
Malmö FF are well known for their large average attendance. [ 55 ] average attendances at Malmö FF ‘s home matches in Allsvenskan and european competitions for the last ten seasons running .
| Season | Competition | Capacity | Matches | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | UEFA Champions League | 20,500 | 3 | 46,916 | 19,084 | 12,501 | 15,639 |
| 2011–12 | UEFA Europa League | 3 | 26,900 | 10,802 | 7,632 | 8,967 | |
| 2013–14 | UEFA Europa League | 3 | 25,855 | 11,538 | 5,689 | 8,618 | |
| 2014–15 | UEFA Champions League | 6 | 110,014 | 20,500 | 8,831 | 18,336 | |
| 2015–16 | UEFA Champions League | 6 | 113,958 | 20,500 | 12,436 | 18,993 | |
| 2017–18 | UEFA Champions League | 1 | 20,058 | 20,058 | 20,058 | 20,058 | |
| 2018–19 | UEFA Champions League | 3 | 45,985 | 18,153 | 10,623 | 15,328 | |
| 2018–19 | UEFA Europa League | 5 | 82,692 | 20,312 | 11,487 | 16,538 | |
| 2019–20 | UEFA Europa League | 8 | 125,471 | 20,500 | 8,667 | 15,684 |
Stadia [edit ]
Malmö FF ‘s beginning stadium was Malmö IP, which was shared with arch-rivals IFK Malmö. The team played here from the establish of the cabaret in 1910, until 1958. The stadium silent exists today, albeit with lower capability, and is now used by women ‘s team FC Rosengård, who were previously the women ‘s section of Malmö FF. capacity in 2012 is 7,600, but attendances were normally a lot higher when Malmö FF played there. For the last season in 1957, the average attendance was 15,500. The cabaret ‘s record attendance at Malmö IP is 22,436 against Helsingborgs IF on 1 June 1956. [ 58 ] The stadium is still considered a key region of the club ‘s history, as it was here that the club were founded, played their first 47 seasons, and won five swedish championships. [ 59 ] A newfangled stadium was constructed in Malmö after Sweden was awarded the 1958 FIFA World Cup – this saw the birth of Malmö Stadion. Malmö FF played their first season at the stadium in 1958. The foremost time the club won the swedish championship at the stadium was in 1965. [ 58 ] An amphetamine tier was added to the stadium in 1992. [ 60 ] The club enjoyed the most successful era of their history at this stadium, winning ten out of twenty dollar bill Swedish championships while based there. The stadium in the first place had a capacity of 30,000 but this was lowered to 27,500 ascribable to changes in safety regulations. The cabaret ‘s record attendance at the stadium was 29,328 against Helsingborgs IF on 24 September 1967. [ 61 ] Following the 2004 victory in Allsvenskan, [ 62 ] plans were made to construct a raw stadium. In July 2005, Malmö FF announced that work was to begin on Eleda Stadion, designed for 18,000 seat spectators and 6,000 standing. The stadium can besides accommodate 21,000 as an all-seater for international and european games in which terrace is not allowed. construction started in 2007 and was finished in 2009. The new stadium is located following to Malmö Stadion. Although there was placid minor construction going on around the stadium at the prison term, the stadium was inaugurated on 13 April 2009 with the first home plate game of the 2009 season against Örgryte IS ; Malmö FF ‘s Labinot Harbuzi scored the inaugural goal in the 61st minute. [ 63 ] The first swedish championship won at the stadium occurred in 2010, when the club drum Mjällby AIF on 7 November in the final game of the season 2–0. attendance at this bet on set the stadium read of 24,148. [ 34 ] [ 64 ] Stadion is a UEFA category 4 rated stadium. [ 65 ]
A panorama of Stadion from the Northern Stand, showing from left to right the Eastern Stand, the Southern Stand and the western Stand
european record [edit ]
Malmö FF has a rich european bequest with participation in UEFA competitions since 1964. The clubhouse ‘s best european performance was in the 1978–79 season, when they reached the final examination of the UEFA Champions League ( then European Champion Clubs ‘ Cup ), where they were beaten 0-1 by english Champions Nottingham Forest. This makes Malmö FF the only Nordic club to have reached this far in the european Cup or Champions League. [ 66 ] Malmö FF is besides the only Nordic club to have been represented at the Intercontinental Cup ( succeeded by FIFA Club World Cup ) in which they competed for the 1979 deed. [ 67 ] Malmö FF is one of the four swedish clubs to have participated in the UEFA Champions League group stages, along with IFK Göteborg, AIK and Helsingborg .
overall record by competition [edit ]
UEFA Coefficient [edit ]
Correct as of 13 August 2021.[68][69] The table shows the position of Malmö FF (highlighted), based on their UEFA coefficient club ranking for 2021, and the four clubs which are closest to Malmö FF’s position (the two clubs with the higher coefficient and the two with the lower coefficient).
| 2022 | 2021 | Mvmt. | Club | 2016–17 | 2017–18 | 2018–19 | 2019–20 | 2020–21 | 2021 Coeff. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55 | 57 |  +2
|
 Ludogorets
|
7.00 | 4.00 | 6.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 23.000 |
| 55 | 63 | +8
|
 Hoffenheim
|
4.00 | 7.00 | 12.00 | 23.000 | ||
| 57 | 88 | +31
|
 Malmö FF
|
1.00 | 7.00 | 8.00 | 2.50 | 3.00 | 21.500 |
| 57 | 87 | +30
|
 Rennes
|
11.00 | 3.00 | 5.00 | 2.50 | 21.500 | |
| 59 | 48 |  -11
|
Mönchengladbach
|
6.00 | 15.00 | 21.000 |
ownership and finances [edit ]
Malmö FF made the conversion from an amateur club to in full professional in the late 1970s under the leadership of cabaret president Eric Persson. [ 70 ] The club is an clear member affiliation, and the annual general merging is the highest policy-making consistency where each member has one vote, consequently no shares are issued. The meet approves the accounts, votes to elect the chair and the board, and decides on incoming motions. During the successful 2010 ‘s era Håkan Jeppsson was the president after taking over after Bengt Madsen in 2010, prior to his sudden death in 2018. The club ‘s legal condition means that any concern claims are made to the club and not to the board of directors or golf club members. daily operations are run by a managing film director who liaises with the president. [ 71 ] With an equity of 497 million SEK the club is the richest football club in Sweden as of 2019. The dollar volume for 2018 was 343 million SEK. [ 72 ] The highest transfer fee received by Malmö FF for a player was 86.2 million SEK ( € 8.7 million at that time ) for Zlatan Ibrahimović who was sold to Ajax in 2001. At the clock time, this was the highest transmit fee always paid to a swedish football club. [ 73 ] The main sponsors of Malmö FF are Volkswagen, Elitfönster AB, Intersport, Imtech, JMS Mediasystem, Mercedes-Benz, SOVA and Svenska Spel. [ 74 ] The club besides had a appoint rights manage with Swedbank regarding the name of Eleda Stadion between 2007 and 2017 when it was called Swedbank Stadion .
Media coverage [edit ]
Malmö FF have been the subject of several films. Some examples are swedish football documentaries Blådårar 1 and Blådårar 2, which portray the club from both garter and player perspectives during the 1997 and 2000 seasons. Blådårar 1 is set in 1997, when the club finished third base in Allsvenskan. The film focuses on devoted fan Lasse, player Anders Andersson, early chair Hans Cavalli-Björkman and other individuals. [ 75 ] [ 76 ] Blådårar 2 is set in 2000, the year after the club had been relegated to Superettan, and follows the team as they fight for Malmö FF ‘s rejoinder to Allsvenskan. [ 77 ] [ 78 ] The second film continues to follow Lasse, but besides has a significant focus on Zlatan Ibrahimović, his progress and how he was finally sold to AFC Ajax during the 2001 season. [ 79 ] [ 80 ] The club have besides been featured in Mitt Hjärtas Malmö, a series of documentaries covering the history of Malmö. Clips used included peer footage from the 1940s ( book 7 ), and match footage from the 1979 european Cup Final in Munich from a sports fan ‘s position ( volume 8 ). [ 81 ] volume 9 of the series is devoted wholly to coverage of the clubhouse ‘s hundredth anniversary in 2010. [ 82 ] In the 2005 swedish drama movie Om Sara, actor Alexander Skarsgård plays the fictional football star Kalle Öberg, who plays for Malmö FF. [ 83 ] [ 84 ] Finally, a recurring sketch in the second season of the drollery sketch show Hipphipp! involved a group of Malmö FF fans singing and chanting while performing everyday tasks, such as shopping or operating an ATM. [ 85 ]
Players [edit ]
current police squad [edit ]
- As of 21 August 2021[86]
note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
Out on lend [edit ]
- As of 18 July 2021[86]
note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
retired numbers [edit ]
12 – MFF Support [ 87 ]
celebrated players [edit ]
[88]Zlatan Ibrahimović started his professional career at Malmö FF. He made 40 league appearances and scored 18 goals for the club between 1999 and 2001. List criteria:
- player has made more than 500 appearances overall for the club, or
- player has won Guldbollen,[89] an official UEFA or FIFA award,[90][91] or
- player has been picked as one of the 11 best players in the official hall of fame Sydsvenskan team that was selected by the newspapers readers for the club’s 100th anniversary in 2010.[92]
| Name | Nationality | Malmö FF career |
Total appearances |
Total goals |
Guldbollen | UEFA/FIFA Award | Sydsvenskan team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sweden | 1934–1953 | 600 | 4 | 1950 | |||
| Sweden | 1934–1951 | 501 | 3 | ||||
| Sweden | 1952–1965 | 515 | 103 | 1962 | |||
| Sweden | 1957–1968 1970 |
414 | 161 | 1967 | |||
| Sweden | 1962–1966 1969–1979 |
546 | 289 | 1965 1973 |
Yes | ||
| Sweden | 1963–1979 | 626 | 16 | Yes | |||
| Sweden | 1968–1983 | 624 | 49 | 1977 | Yes | ||
| Sweden | 1968–1974 1977–1983 |
564 | 13 | ||||
| Sweden | 1971–1980 1984–1988 |
591 | 1 | 1979 | Yes | ||
| Sweden | 1976–1987 | 473 | 46 | Yes | |||
| Sweden | 1975–1988 | 568 | 28 | ||||
| Sweden | 1977–1982 1993–1995 |
262 | 57 | 1986 | Yes | ||
| Sweden | 1980–1995 | 574 | 39 | ||||
| Sweden | 1984–2001 | 588 | 1 | ||||
| Sweden | 1985–1987 1988–1989 |
160 | 30 | 1989 | Yes | ||
| Sweden | 1987–1991 | 176 | 83 | 1993 | Yes | ||
| Sweden | 1987–1991 | 103 | 7 | 1999 | Yes | ||
| Sweden | 1989–1992 2004–2005 |
184 | 24 | 1995 2001 |
UEFA Team of the Year 2001 |
Yes | |
| Sweden | 1999–2001 | 69 | 16 | 2005 2007–2016 |
UEFA Team of the Year 2007 2009 2013 2014 FIFPro World XI 2013 FIFA Puskás Award 2013 |
Yes | |
| Finland | 2005–2007 | 18 | 6 | UEFA Jubilee Awards |
management [edit ]
organization [edit ]
As of 7 December 2018 [ 93 ] [ 94 ]
technical staff [edit ]
As of 11 August 2021 [ 86 ]
celebrated coaches [edit ]
Roy Hodgson won five consecutive Allsvenskan titles and two Svenska Cupen titles during his five years at the club. He is pictured in 2012 as head coach of England This is a number of coaches who have won one or more titles at the clubhouse [ 95 ]
Statistics [edit ]
Malmö FF have played 86 seasons in Allsvenskan. The only club to have played more seasons are AIK with 93 and IFK Göteborg with 89 ( 2021 ). [ 96 ] The baseball club are besides the leaders of the all-time Allsvenskan postpone since the end of the 2012 season. [ 96 ] They are the only Nordic club to have played a european Cup concluding, show day UEFA Champions League, having reached the 1979 european Cup Final. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] Malmö FF is besides the alone Nordic club to have been represented at the Intercontinental Cup ( succeeded by FIFA Club World Cup ) in which they competed for the 1979 title. [ 97 ]
Club honours [edit ]
Malmö FF have won domestic, european, and international honor. The club presently holds the records for most swedish championships, Allsvenskan and Svenska Cupen titles. [ A ] The cabaret ‘s most holocene honor was in 2021 when they won Allsvenskan. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] The club first played in Europe for the 1964–65 european season in the european Cup, and most recently in the 2021–22 european season in the group stage for the UEFA Champions League. Including the qualification stages, they have participated in the european Cup and UEFA Champions League eighteen times and in the UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League seventeen times. The club have besides played in other now defunct european competitions such as the UEFA Cup Winners ‘ Cup and the UEFA Intertoto Cup. [ 98 ] [ 99 ]
domestic [edit ]
The Malmö FF team of 1948–49
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- a b c d[5] The entitle of “ swedish Champions ” has been awarded to the achiever of four different competitions over the years. between 1896 and 1925 the entitle was awarded to the winner of the Svenska Mästerskapet, a stand-alone cup tournament. No club were given the title between 1926 and 1930 even though the first-tier league Allsvenskan was played. In 1931 the title was reinstated and awarded to the achiever of Allsvenskan. Between 1982 and 1990 a play-off in cup format was held at the end of the league season to decide the champions. After the play-off format in 1991 and 1992 the deed was decided by the achiever of Mästerskapsserien, an extra league after the end of Allsvenskan. Since the 1993 season the title has once again been awarded to the achiever of Allsvenskan .
References [edit ]
General
- Smitt, Rikard (2009). Ända sen gamla dagar… (in Swedish). Project Management. ISBN 978-91-633-5767-1.
- Törner, Ole (2005). Malmö FF; En Supporters Handbok (in Swedish). Bokförlaget DN. ISBN 91-7588-683-9.
Specific
- Official website ( in Swedish )
- MFF Support ( in Swedish ) – official supporter club site
- Himmelriket ( in Swedish ) – supporter site
- MFF-Familjen ( in Swedish ) – supporter site
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